I would position the USBUIRT slightly in front of the monitor. Its IR should work the monitor fine. You can get an external IR "blaster" that you can attach to the Motorola. You can supposedly control the Motorola with firewire but that may be more trouble than its worth.

I use the control options interchangeably with no problem.

The setup is supposed to be uploaded automatically but I don't know if thats working yet.

I looked, there is no place to attach the blaster to the UIRT. I have an extra IR blaster that has a teeny little headphone plug, but there is no connector for it.

and yes, I know about sql2cvs, that's why I was asking if there was another method in place until we knew that worked?

And yes, I _was_ controlling the motorola via firewire and a little program. and it works, HOWEVER, I wanted to be able to do this from DCE, not mythtv itself, because I _would_ like the _guide_ and _livetv_ portions to work correctly as well.

I just looked at mine. It has a jack in it with a very thin black barrel making it almost invisible. Check yours and check their web site. Its illustrated here http://www.usbuirt.com/overview.htm and send an annoyed note if they have deleted it.